Configuring RichText in a script?

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#1

Since Roblox’s solution for multiple colors in a single strand of text was RichText, I tried using it for my game. The issue is this is basically impossible when trying to set the Color within a script. I have the RGB values of the two colors I want, but the richText code isn’t properly formatting. Here:

events.PlayerEvents.PlayerDied.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(target, killer)
	local targetName = target.Name
	local killerName = killer.Name
	local targetTeamColor = Color3.fromRGB(255,255,255)
	local killerTeamColor = Color3.fromRGB(255,255,255)
	if game.ReplicatedStorage.Players:FindFirstChild(target.UserId) then
		if target.UserId ~= player.UserId then
			local targetTeam = game.ReplicatedStorage.Players[target.UserId].GameData.Team.Value
			local targetTeamColor = game.ReplicatedStorage.Gamemodes.Mode.Teams[targetTeam].Color.Value
		end
	end
	if game.ReplicatedStorage.Players:FindFirstChild(killer.UserId) then
		if target.UserId ~= player.UserId then
			local killerTeam = game.ReplicatedStorage.Players[killer.UserId].GameData.Team.Value
			local killerTeamColor = game.ReplicatedStorage.Gamemodes.Mode.Teams[killerTeam].Color.Value
		end
	end
	local feedGui = player.PlayerGui.GameGui.Feed
	local feedBar = feedGui.UIGridLayout.Sample:Clone()
	feedBar.FeedText.Text = "<font color= "rgb(255,0,0)"> Y35X </font> KILLED <font color= "rgb(0,0,255)"> GGEMoyer </font>"
end)

I can’t input the color3 values I want to begin with because the text won’t properly format.
How can I create multi-colored text labels? I see it in games like Arsenal, Mad Paintball, etc., where the kill feed has strings of text with multiple colors, but this solution doesn’t appear to work.

#2

Have you checked this code?

rgb(255,0,0) and rgb(0,0,255) are intersected with the string.

#3

You could replace the quotation marks with [[ and ]]

feedBar.FeedText.Text = [[<font color= "rgb(255,0,0)"> Y35X </font> KILLED <font color= "rgb(0,0,255)"> GGEMoyer </font>]]
#4

An alternative would be

feedBar.FeedText.Text = "<font color= 'rgb(255,0,0)'> Y35X </font> KILLED <font color= 'rgb(0,0,255)'> GGEMoyer </font>"

So many ways to do the samething haha

#5

You can also escape the double quotation marks in your string by putting a backslash before each quotation mark:

"example \""

This would show up on a text label as:

example "

So, in your case:
feedBar.FeedText.Text = "<font color= \"rgb(255,0,0)\"> Y35X </font> KILLED <font color= \"rgb(0,0,255)\"> GGEMoyer </font>"

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